Trace-holder.



No. 784,214. PATENTED MAR. 7, 1905. G. HEILRATH.

TRAGE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 19.1904.

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Thurman Patented. Ill/[arch "Z, 1905.

UH'RlS'll AN HEILRATH, OF SACRAMENTO, ALl l Ol'tNlli.

TRACE llUILDEW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,2 14, dated March 7', 1905.

Application filed July 19, 1904. Serial No. 217,289.

To ft w/m'm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, (ln'nrs'rmn HEILRATII, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented a new and useful Trace-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in trace-holders.

The object of the present invention is to im prove the construction of trace-holders and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eiiicicnt device adapted to be applied to a whiiiietree having the usual trace-receiving tongue and eye without necessitating any alteration in the construction of the whiiiletree.

A further object of the invention is to provide a trace-holder adapted to be attached to a whiiiietree by the tracereceiving tongue ee and capable of securely retaining a trace thereon and of enabling a trace to be quickly attached to and removed from a whiiiietree.

With these and other objects in view the invcntion consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereina'lter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction Within the scope of the claims maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawii'igs, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tracedrolder constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a whitlletree. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the samef Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the attacln'nent plate or support.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the [igin'es of the drawings.

1 designates an attachment plate or support consisting of a disk or ring having a central opening 2 to receive the threaded shank 3 of a trace-receiving tongue 4L of a Whililetree 5. The whiflietree is provided with the usual sleeve or ferrule 6, and the attachment plate or support is interposed between the end of the whii'lletree and a shoulder 7 of the trace-receiving tongue, as clearly illustrated in liig. 2 of the drawings, whereby the attachment plate or support is lirmly clamped in position. The attachment plate or support is provided at the top with a lug 8, to which is pivoted a trace-holding hook 9. The trace-holding hook 9 has its inner end 1 O bifurcated to receive the lug 8,and the sides of thebi'furcated end and the lug are pierced by the pivot 11. The outer end of the trace-holding hook bears against the tongue adjacent to the eye 12, and it is held in such position by a coiled spring 13, which is arranged within a longitudinal socket or opening 14 of the trace-holding hook. The springis provided with an engaging momher consisting 01 a head or block 15, having a shank fitting against the lug 8, which is tapered to present inner and outer inclined faces. The engaging member oi the spring is adapted when the hook .is swung to its open position to engage the inner inclined face of the lug for holding the hook in such position. The means for holding the hook in its opened and closed positions does not constitute a portion of the present invention, as it is claimed in an application liled by me of even date herewith. The lug extends inward over the sleeve and it a:l :tords a lirm support for the hook.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it possesses great strength and durability, and that it is adapted to be applied to whil'lietroes of the ordinary construction without necessitating any alteration in the same by means of the trace-receiving tongue.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a whili'letree, and a trace-receiving tongue extending into the wvliiilietree, oi a support'litted against the end of the whililietree and secured to the same by the tongue, and a trace-holding hook hinged to the support and cooperating with the tongue.

2. The combination with a whil'lletree, and a tongue having a shoulder and provided with a shank extending into the whililetree, ot' a support consisting of a plate having an opening to receive the shank and interposed between the shoulder of the tongue and the end l against the Whiflietree, and a hook pivoted to IO of the Whiflletree, said plate being also prothe support and cooperating With the tongue.

vided With a projecting lug, and a trace-hold- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ing hook pivoted to the lug and cooperating my OW n I have hereto afiixed my signature in with the tongue. the presence of two Witnesses.

3. The combination with a Whifiletree, of a CHRISTIAN HEILRATH. support consisting of a plate fitted against the Witnesses: end of the whiflietree, a trace-receiving tongue EDWARD A. MEIsTER,

piercing the plate and clamping the same FRANK VAN ALsTINE. 

